All knowledge is not taught in one school.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.